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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' CHARLES WILLIAM KROMENAKER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BOOK-MARKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 664,417, dated December 25, 1900.

Application filed July 20, 1900. Serial No. 24,345. (No model-l T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES WILLIAM KROMENAKER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Book-Markers and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skliled in the art to which it appe'rtai'ns to make and use the same. Myinventiou relates to bookmarkers, and more particularly to that variety thereof de signed for the use of stenographers in connection with the booksor writing-tablets commonly used for taking stenographic notes; and my invention consists of certain novel features of combination and construction of parts, the preferred form or embodiment whereof will be set forth in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple cheap, through reliably efficient, device of the character specified which may be readily disposed in its operative position upon or in connection with a tablet, whereby the pages filled'with stenographic notes or other data may be readily kept separated from notes or data previously transcrd bed, while the last page used may also be readily ascertained.

Other objects and advantages will be made fully apparent from the following specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of my attachment complete. Fig. 2 is an end View thereof, both of said views showing the device in a folded position ready for use. Fig. 3 is an end view showing the parts disposed substantially in that position which they will occupy when in use. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing two of the parts of my device separated from each other. Fig. 5 is another View of the same parts shown in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 shows my invention as applied to use upon an ordinary sten'ogra'phic n0tebook. Fig. 7 is a detail plan view showinga cardboard or other form of back or body portion to which my book-marker is secured.

In order to conveniently refer to the several features of my invention and their cooperating accessories, numerals will be employed, of which 1 indicates a portion of the framework of 'my book-marker, which may be cheaply formed of wire or other suitable immediately beneath the cover of the book.

I prefer to dispose one of the sections 1-upon each side of the stitching of the book, which may be readily done by spreading the parts 1 sufiiciently to enter the pagesof the hook, the

cover portion being then wrapped over said sections. By this disposition of the sections 1 they will be entirely out of sight, excepting the end portions thereof. The ends of the sections 1 are properly bent to provide the eyes 2 and-are adapted to receive the eyes or link-sections 3 and 4, formed, respectively, upon the partitioning-sections 5 and 6, which latter are disposed parallel with each other, though preferably separated, in order to better perform their office of separating the leaves of the book to which my invention is applied. The sections'5 and 6 are preferably formed of wire properly bent at their extreme ends to form the link-sections 3 and 4,

respectively. In Fig. 5 it will be observed that the eyes 2 are engaged by both the eyes or links 3 and 4, thereby holding the sections 1 in a position substantially parallel to each other, ready to be swung apart sufifiiciently to receive the leaf or body section of the book,

it being understood, as above set forth, that the cover thereof must wrap over or extend upon the outer side of the sections 1, thus preventing the book from dropping entirely through between said sections.

In Fig. 6 it will be seen that the section 5 is disposed in advance of a number of pages of the book, while the section 6 is disposed still farther in advance, there being a nnmher of pages between the sections 5 and 6 which we will assume have just been .filled with stenographic notes, while the pages in advance of the section 5 are those pages which have just been transcribed upon the typewriter. The pages in advance of the section 6 are blank pages, and as each of these pages is filled with data it can be tucked behind the section 6, and thus disposed with the pages that have been filled, though not yet transcribed, it being understood that the pages just Written bythe stenographer in shorthand and not yet transcribed by the type-writer are always between the sections 5 and 6, while those pages which have been written upon the type-writer are behind the section 5'.

i In Fig. 7 I have 'showna-writing-tablet or basedesigned to support the flexible book usually employed in connection with my attachment, and said writing-tablet or. base will for convenience be designated by the numeral 7. The base 7 may be made of heavy cardboard or other preferred material and is preferably provided at each corner'with an eyelet 8, by means of which it can be opera: tively connected to my im proved book-marker by means of a split ring 9, as clearly shown in Fig. 6. By means of the base-section 7a desirable support is provided for the writer when no table, desk, or the like is conveniently at hand.

-It will be understood that my improved book-marker may be constructed of any ma.- terial deemed suitable for the purpose and the partsthereof quickly assembled in their respective operative positions, and while I have described the preferred construction of the several parts it will be understood that I desire to comprehend in this application all such equivalents and substitutes as may be considered to fall fairly within the scope of my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1 The herein-described book-marker comprising the sections 5 and 6 provided with the eye lets 3 and 4 respectively; a pair of anchoringsections 1 connected to said eyelets; a basesection 7 and means to connect said section to the eyelets 2 formed upon the ends of the section 1, all substantially as specified and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afii'x my signatur in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES WILLIAM. KROMENAKER.

Witnesses:

WALTER S. KAEHLER, ANTHONY JURGENSON. 

